You May Think Menopause Is Messing with You but It Could Be Something Else
At a certain age, women experience strange symptoms and presume menopause is to blame, or simply chalk it up to hormone issues. In truth, there are other health problems that can cause symptoms similar to menopause even though they are unrelated. Adrenal fatigue Long-term stress, and the frequent rushes of adrenaline that often accompany it, can lead to a whole myriad...
Is the Key to Happiness the Story You Tell Yourself?
It turns out a highly effective treatment for depression may be rewriting the story of your life in your head. Psychotherapy has focused on this method of talking out new perspectives on life stories and found success in treating depression. As explained by psychologist Michele Crossley, the condition of depression is a result of people who tell themselves an "inadequate...
Reduce Inflammation and 6 Other Reasons to Eat Fennel Seeds
If you don't have fennel in your pantry right now, you will definitely want to go get some after reading what I have to say about it. You may know fennel as the ultimate breath freshener. Many upscale restaurants will serve some fennel after a meal as it helps to clean the palate and leave the mouth tasting and smelling...
Antibiotic-Resistant Gene Discovered in Remote Tribe
Antibiotic resistance has been named as a worldwide health catastrophe. Since the invention of antibiotics in the 1920s, scientists have found that bacteria become resistant to the drugs. This has spurred the continual creation of new antibiotics to battle the ever-evolving bacteria. It’s a vicious cycle of microbe versus medicine. Recently this problem has come to the fore, as the...
Your Goldfish Is Paying Better Attention Than You
According to statistics, the attention span of humans was about 12 seconds back in the year 2000. Now with the continued popularity of technological distractions, our attention span has fallen even shorter.Researchers at Microsoft recently conducted a study on three types of attention: sustained, selective, and alternating. · Sustained attention is keeping one's focus on a singular task for a...
Ringing Ears: What You Need to Know
For 20 percent of Americans, ringing in the ears, or tinnitus, is a daily affliction, and in 90 percent of those cases there is hearing loss. Up to 60 percent of veterans who served in Afghanistan and Iraq return home with tinnitus and hearing loss. A peek into the brain of a tinnitus sufferer In an effort to gain a better...
New Healthy Function of Salt Discovered: Are You Eating the Real Thing?
Are you still avoiding salt due to fears surrounding hypertension and heart disease? Do your meals end up a bit bland, but you sleep better at night knowing you didn't overindulge on sodium? If so, we're sorry to tell you that some of these fears may be unfounded… as long as you're choosing the right salt. As we've reported before,...
Elderly Adults Find Best Relief from Depression through Yoga
Research shows that as many as 40 percent of adults over 60 report experiencing feelings of anxiety. And as many as 20 percent of seniors struggle with feelings of depression. While yoga has proven benefits for people of all ages, it has been shown to provide depression and anxiety relief to seniors in particular. A review of two decades of...
Start Teaching Your Baby Language Before It’s Even Born
New research suggests that the first cries made by your newborn baby may be influenced by patterns of your native tongue learned while in the womb. Analyzing the cries of newborns A study from the University of Wurzburg in Germany analyzed more than one thousand recorded infant cries from 30 German newborns and 30 French newborns. They detected definite differences in the...
Your Asthma Medicine May Be Screwing Up Your Adrenal System
It has been found that many people who have stopped taking steroids for allergies and asthma have developed problems with their adrenal glands. Examining the risk with long-term corticosteroid use A European study led by senior author Dr. Olaf Dekkers, an endocrinologist at Aarhus University in Denmark, found that after long-term use of corticosteroids people were experiencing symptoms of adrenal gland...
